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Jul 21, 2025
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oh look at this these little tiny legs like that whoa up like this and then
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at and now let's time it flip the door swing this up swing that out pull this out slap it on
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that's pretty quick that's not bad to get your gimbal going and we're also doing a 10 device
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cool setups that's the only one i can check Alright so here we've got a cool product it's called the PowerVision S1
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It's actually it's kind of more than one single product It's a little mini ecosystem of devices that pair together
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I mean you look at this at first you're like what even is that Because it's so tiny
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Actually then right there it says not just tiny So don't get confused
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They're calling it the perfect companion for smartphones What it is is a super portable gimbal slash tracking device for filming video where it can like track an individual and pivot and also behave like a tripod
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And then it's also a magnetic mounting system to make the process of getting your phone on and off of it easier than some of the other gimbal like devices that are out there
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There's quite a few things to show off here. So we'll kick it off with the main unit
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Oh, it's also, it's even a charger, a battery charger as well, wirelessly
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So you can drop your phone on there and get some extra juice. Why don't we just read the back of it
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Smart rotating stand, three-axis stabilized gimbal, portable wireless charger, AI auto tracking
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It's able to move and follow me. Hand gestures as well, so you can start and stop recording and take photos
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Universal magnetic connection. Well, that's with the accessories and whatnot. That's how you interface with it
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an intelligent editing app ultimate compact design now it's worth mentioning this is currently on
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indiegogo and there is an early bird deal going on 40 off for early birds supporting the kickstarter
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and we're also doing a 10 device giveaway so for your shot at winning make sure you're subscribed
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to the channel and then leave your twitter handle down in the comment section of this video for your
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chance to win one of these cool setups. So I'm noticing it comes in a few different colors. I
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don't know which one I'm going to have here. Here you can see what the rig looks like set up. This is
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crazy small. I've messed with smartphone gimbals in the past and maybe because of the magnetic
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mounting, they're able to really shrink things down, which is nice. So I got the black and gold
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Thank goodness. That's what I was hoping for. Here's a little kind of setup guide, which they've
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worked into the box. It's kind of nice. Stay live for live streaming, live broadcasting
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social media applications. You set it up with the little inbuilt tripod or you mount it to another
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tripod. I think she's doing some sort of yoga situation, but whatever it is that you happen
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to be streaming or recording, you don't need a separate cameraman because this device becomes
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the cameraman. The three-axis anti-shaking smartphone gimbal, so stabilizer in there as
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well, 15 hours of battery life in combination with being able to use it to charge your phone
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if you choose to use it as a wireless charger. So you can see how that works there
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You just drop it on to the side and charge up your phone
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It also has these magnetic accessories for mounting to your car, like up near the, on the vent
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if you want to mount your device there because the case has the inbuilt magnet
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So it's a quick, some quick versatility there as well. And the case has a kickstand
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It's really doing a lot of different things, a lot of different functions in here
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Here the USB cable to charge it up Then this is the little magnetic mount Oh it unscrews And this is your vent mount if you want to use it in your car as well
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And this is the large magnet on the other side. That's what's going to connect
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and interface with the case. So this is kind of just like bonus stuff
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to go with the main attraction, which is the actual S1. I'm going to unwrap it here
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So this is what it looks like. This is where you're going to connect for your wireless charging
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Step one. Oh. Whoa. Up like this. And then
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So here's your gimbal portion up top, and that's your big magnet
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which is going to connect to the case. So this is a nice improvement, assuming that the magnet is powerful
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Because in the past with these really slim and portable gimbals, you would have to have some sort of a clamp up here
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Usually they were spring loaded often, so it could be a bit of a hassle to get your phone in and out of there
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And then it also meant that you had to store that portion when it was all tucked away
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because the magnets can have a smaller footprint. They can actually fit inside the unit itself to be stored for travel
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So on the unit, there's the USB-C connection point for charging it up
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There's also a quarter inch connector at the bottom for mounting to a tripod or similar
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but there's also a baked in, look at this, these little tiny legs like that
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And now you have a stationary camera that can follow the action and sit on a surface
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This is going to be useful for like a tabletop type of scenarios
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You also have a joystick over here so you can control manually the pan and tilt
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There's a zoom control power switch. Here in the back of this box
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you can see the mounting point in the car up against a wall, like in a high traffic location
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or look at this, even on a piece of exercise equipment. Oh, that's interesting
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There's some extra magnets that have been included as well. Oh, so you can just 3M stick these wherever is convenient
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and then the case will be able to slap into those spots
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And it's a pretty powerful grip actually. Holy cow, I gotta get that off
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That's just extra functionality as a case. All right, so I do have an iPhone 12 Pro Max
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That's the case that they sent us. And this just slaps in like any other case
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So it's like a rubberized finish to it, protective case with a little kickstand as well. So that just lets you, I don't know, have a
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maybe on the bedside table, maybe you're browsing, you're eating lunch. It's, it's again, just another
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little extra function in there. But then when it comes to mounting to the gimbal as well
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you see this little notch at the top here that slaps in there, very powerful. And now of course
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you're using the gimbal without a need for a separate kind of friction based clamp or anything
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like that it just pops on and pops off boom you're on you're off you're on you're off that's the
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beauty of it because sometimes the reason you don't use these things is because you know just
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getting them on and off of there like setting it up might not be uh you might avoid it you just be
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like oh just let me get the shot real quick and just go with the phone itself but if it's easy
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and in this case it's a magnetic you might go to the gimbal uh more frequently and then end up with
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the stable smooth buttery smooth type shots this is if you don't want to use the case ah yes but
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yeah so i presume if you want to go caseless you could use the bare phone and just slap this portion
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on there. Ooh, and this I guess is the universal equivalent
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So if you wanted to connect the device that you didn't have the case for
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or you didn't wanna use the magnet, then you have your typical spring loaded setup so you could slap any phone in there this is a powerful connection on this one holy wow i do want to try the wireless charger function
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so let me just go ahead and get this folded up boom boom down here down oh look that's pretty quick
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that's your total fold down sequence. Now, if I power this up
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little indicator here shows me three dots out of a possible four
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They've built in this really wild contraption. So the kickstand is actually more than just a kickstand
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And I'm just realizing now, since you can spin it, the fact that you can spin it
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means you can use it in landscape. Yeah, so obviously this is a little bit more comfortable
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for that purpose, but it actually does even more than that. So this tiny little kickstand kind of controls
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the whole behavior of this thing. So by sliding it down like this, now you are removing the magnetic portion
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or at least sliding it out of the way to clear up this section right here
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which allows you to pass through wireless charge from this unit. Now you can wire charge as well
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If you have a type C cable, you can just plug it in there
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and charge off of here that way. but if you want a convenience of wireless, you just slide this portion down
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and you're charging up there. Now you do need to tap the power button for like one second
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So it goes into kind of a secondary mode. You see the orange light here, that's the charge mode
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If you press and hold the power button for three seconds and you go into the full gimbal functionality
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The other cool thing here is that the magnet is now gone
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So earlier I was messing around with these and I was like, okay, you could slap this to anything
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but it was actually hard to get it off because it was stuck there with nothing to grip onto
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If I have it in the stock position and I put this magnet on
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now I'm like, oh, I can't, how do I crank that off
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But because of this little slider, I do a twist, slide down, boom, the magnet flies off
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So that's some, there's some engineering going on there to figure out how to do that
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All right, so there is an app to go with this called Vision Plus S1
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It's gonna look for your device. I'm gonna press and hold. I can see the battery life remaining is nine hours
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And just like that now, I'm within the app. Has time-lapse, slow motion, video, photo, and panorama
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I'm gonna get this gimbal back deployed. Let's time it. Flip the door, swing this up, swing that out
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Pull this out. Slap it on. That's pretty quick. That's not bad to get your gimbal going
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Let's go ahead and actually do some gimbal action here. That's kind of the point of this
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And as mentioned, the beauty here is the portability, the ability to get it up and running quickly, set up very fast
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And that's through the power of magnets, which as you're well aware
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I've been a big fan of magnets for a while. And so, of course, we got the Master Mo behind the wheel here
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And as you can see, the phone is mounted up. And that's a big phone, by the way
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So it's about as heavy as you're probably going to mount on there. And the motors in the gimbal are more than capable on the Pro Max model
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You can see it flinging around from portrait to landscape. Now, probably the flagship feature here is the ability to track not just moving subjects, not just humans and pets, but also objects
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objects so as you can see here it's locked on the plant and no matter where he moves the camera it's
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going to keep that in the center of the frame and as he moves over here to another object the same
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is true in fact you can create shots simply by drawing these boxes onto the frame and not even
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moving the gimbal at all like you don't need any input after that now here's a tougher subject of
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Of course, this is the world famous Otis, and he been known to chase a ball every so often But the gimbal is not phased In fact it wasn even phased by the old man badminton right here uh well that not a surprise because it wasn all that fast moving but this uh it
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might even be able to keep up with linus tech tips on the on the badminton skills that's the
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capability there uh but anyway as you can tell here it it's not a lot of input necessary from
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the handler and that's the beauty of it so you can just worry about following the action just
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getting in the rough vicinity and then drawing out whatever it is you want to track and then
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you're pretty much done you're going to have the footage captured so it's going to be good for
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sports it's going to be good for uh all types of action environments but also if you're filming
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yourself because often you see these vlogs and things online that where the individual is like
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moving around the frame and it's just not ideal this lets you frame yourself up if you're on a
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front-facing camera and have the exact same effect and impact where you're not having to worry as much
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about the composition of the frame instead the gimbal is completely taking care of it in app now
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the other thing i should mention is that there's like a background mode so that you can bring this
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tracking into other applications not just video recording because you might want to have the
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tracking exists inside of FaceTime or some other video conferencing app. And so you can launch this
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background app, which will bring the tracking through, you may even just want to use the
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phone specific video recording for whatever reason, if it has some feature you like
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or maybe you want to bring the tracking over to social media, like, I don't know, Snapchat or
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TikTok or whatever it is that you happen to be using, whichever app you like to record in
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this tracking feature moves through there as well. So the zoom functionality, some of these hardware controls tap into the phone through the software
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as you can see here. So just simply pushing in the zoom on the handle means you don't have to reach up and touch the phone screen
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if you don't want to. Of course, the joystick portion on the gimbal works in the same fashion
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It's a hardware button for a software feature. Now, keep in mind, as mentioned, this thing is equally capable in a stationary position
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In fact, I think this is going to be one of the ways that many people use this is to set it up on a desk and frame up a shot that way or for a video conference FaceTime situation as mentioned previously
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now when it comes to versatility power vision really imagines you kind of moving into the
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whole ecosystem so once you have this case on your phone you're opening up all the magnetic
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accessories that go along with it but even if you choose not to go with the case and you go with
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this little adapter it's the same situation they have this variety of ways to interface with the
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product so it could be as simple as mounting to the gimbal or to the wall or in the car as you'll
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see in a moment here plus if you get the universal adapter shown off then it really opens things up
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to any phone that you have in your inventory i don't expect you to have an inventory quite like
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the one that we've got here but it just means any phone can work so there you have it that is the
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power vision s1 and the whole ecosystem of accessories to go along with it you can go
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check their website see if your phone is on there but like i said with the universal accessories you
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can kind of use this with any smartphone of course the charging is built in there as mentioned
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previously you can get on there and just wirelessly charge which is a nice little backup and they just
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put together a really portable package here so you can slap the whole thing in your pocket and get set up very quickly oh yeah and also remember there is a giveaway happening so make
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sure to check the description of this video for the details if you want to win one of 10
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of these good luck everybody
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